A critical component of the food web in the Arctic is at risk. According to a new study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, Arctic ice algae has become infected with ...

The alga Melosira arctica, which grows under Arctic sea ice, contains ten times as many microplastic particles as the surrounding seawater. This concentration at the base of the food web poses a ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Climate change could start causing significant algae blooms in the ...

Last summer, we travelled to the remote Arctic Hausgarten observatory area in the eastern Fram Strait (west of Svalbard, Norway) on a research ship. The samples we collected there included ice cores, ...

Researchers have discovered giant viruses living on algae-blackened ice in the Arctic, which could be harnessed to reduce ice melting. Ice in the Arctic is melting at an alarming rate. Now, ...

April 21 (UPI) --Algae that grow under sea ice in the Arctic have been found to be "heavily contaminated" with microplastics, posing a threat to humans through the food chain, according to a new study ...

The dark patches on the Greenland Ice Sheet are algae that bloom during the spring when the snow on of the ice melts. Near the bottom of the picture, you can see researcher Laura Halbach taking ...

On a Polarstern expedition in the Arctic, researchers led by biologist Melanie Bergmann from the Alfred Wegener Institute are investigating how much microplastic is in aggregates of the ice alga ...

New research reveals that ice algae can store nutrients which may enable them to colonize more of the ice sheet, darkening and melting it. It's May. The sun is up and the heat from that distant star ...